Simple force-directed graph layout in javascript, MIT-licensed, without any explicit dependence on using canvas or SVG for visualization.

Vertical layout, CSS float alternative.

Munzner's thesis, from 2000. T.M.'s papers on visualization are consistently some of the most interesting that I read.

A different person, reimplementing Knuth and Plass using Java 2D. Closer to what I might want. Including some discussion of the algorithm itself.

Laying out lines (from a paragraph of text) in Javascript, using the Knuth and Plass "line breaking algorithm." The original paper for which is not available from ACM, grrr..

To be used.

This paper, and the Rao and Richa paper about "minimum linear arrangements" that you get to if you click through two or three links, are more important than you might realize at first glance. Web/database/semanticweb type people, take note. Someone ask me to explain it, after the 13th, if you don't already see the importance...

LaTeX images for blogging.

A reasonable explanation of the basics of the innards of TeX, with the requisite grain of salt already added.

Structured text composition, with converters to other formats. An online editor, a repository for 'format' schemata, but also links to open-source tools to do the same (I think) locally. Nice.

More flexible math-in-browsers, which falls back on TeX fonts when available, but does the best it can when they're not.

'WYSIWYM' TeX editor.

Via Lambda the Ultimate. A document-formatting library in Haskell.

What about a web-accessible 'dashboard' for the system of biological data and annotations that we keep? Not an analysis tool or visualizer first or foremost, but -- something that my advisor could log into and 'see' what's going on.

Automatic (and interesting) text-layout options for something like a blog. John, read this, but only when you've got some free time.

More layered-graph layout and drawing, okay.

A paper on one of the directed graph-layout algorithms used in graphviz. Am I *really* going to have to reimplement this myself? Hrrrmph.

Showcase of beautiful computer graphics and typesetting done in TeX. Plainy, this link is culled from the Crooked Timber "Fetishizing the Text" post, but it's worth a link in its own right too.

Kieran Healey, from two years ago. "But this, too, is a mistake. The other way that the computer-as-writing-instrument can be fetishized is in its role as producer of the printed page." Which is right.

Thinking about the design of tables and filter-sets for a UI. Web programming, but also other UI design as well.

Grid-based text layout on the web. I think it's hilarious that designers set out to undo the very basic ways in which the web was supposed to work in the first place. C'est la vie.

Capturing eye-tracks for 'better' web-design. Also includes gender-specific reactions to George Brett's wang.

"Slides and notes from SxSW 2007"